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Searching for Home: Ten Years In Colorado
Boulder was a mad love affair those first few months. My eyes glowed with the love I felt for that town, and I couldn’t wait to wake up in the morning and see what the world had in store for me. June 30, 2020 will mark ten years since I moved from my home west of...
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Travel During a Pandemic
“We do not think of it every day, but we never forget it: the beloved shall grow old, or ill, and be taken away finally. No matter how ferociously we fight, how tenderly we love, how bitterly we argue, how pervasively we berate the universe, how cunningly we hide,...
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Adventures Closer to Home
This was an adventure because after a few months of lock down even our rare drives to the supermarket or to pick up a take-out dinner had begun to feel like an adventure. The word 'adventure' has taken on new meaning in the midst of a pandemic. Once upon a time, the...
read moreTake Out Food During Covid-19
Perhaps I was overreacting. I got my food and took it directly to the car. I wiped down my hands, the bag and containers. It will be alright. Great job! I have noted in my permanent record, the one I have been keeping in my head since Kindergarten, that I have been...
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Journal of One Day: Safer at Home
I think I like to remain in my head because forecasting the future can feel frightening. There is no sure way to see how this will play out. It will pass, we will begin to travel again and the fear will fade, but how will we relate to one another? April 9, 2020 My...
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Loss During Shelter-in-Place
This is about my team of angels, those who have carried me through, albeit at a social distance, with complete selfless devotion. My husband died during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place pandemic. A grumpy, blusterful Irishman of 64, he was full of life, full of humor,...
read morePandemic Journal from South Africa: Masks, Sadness, Nature
I haven't had a moment of boredom but I also find that as the weeks have become a month, the creative things that I wanted to do just haven't happened as I haven't had the heart or inspiration to get to them…the heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach has totally...
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Pandemic Art Journal: The Art Before Me
These little watercolors in my sketchbook are a practice of intimacy. They are a way to ask what is here to encounter directly in this present moment. A way to look deeply at something I assume I already know well. I remember an art teacher telling me to draw what I...
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